Word: hardman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorable headlines in September 1929 when its stock dropped 70 points on news that the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities had refused to allow a 4-to-1 stock split. Selling quickly spread to other public utility shares, helped precipitate the Crash. ¶Nine months after Manhattan's Hardman National Bank & Trust Co. closed last year, the Federal Government brought suit to compel the 19 members of the New York Clearing House Association to cover a $6,300,000 deficit in the bank's funds. The Government charged that the Clearing House members had promised Harriman Bank officers...
...Manhattan last week Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, daughter of the late great Banker-Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless...
Dwindling Labor. Labor's critics, among them J. B. S. Hardman in last week's New Republic, paint a sorry picture of U. S. organized Labor, particularly of the A. F. of L. whose membership dwindled 71,000 in the past year alone because of unemployment. Urban U. S. citizens get the notion that every worker in the country has a union card. That is because city dwellers who are annoyed by having to pay plasterers $15.40 a day, come chiefly in contact with building tradesmen whose ranks show an optimistic gain of 461,000 in the past...
...Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...
...restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien's jail, shot George Grant dead-lynching No. 13 of this year. Gov. Lamartine Griffin Hardman ordered Darien under martial...